Winchester Deanery Parishes

A map of the Winchester Deanery is on the left.

There are 26 parishes in the Winchester Deanery; some parishes are combined giving 13 benefices.

The groupings into benefices are shown by the bolder lines on the map, St Bartholomew and St Lawrence with St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate are not contiguous parishes so each parish appears separately. Additionally the Lower Dever benefice comprises the parishes of Barton Stacey with Bullington and South Wonston.

Parish Spotlights

The national church have recently provided us with ‘Parish Spotlights’. The Spotlights for each parish in the deanery are available below. These pdfs aim to bring together a range of information about each parish, both in terms of their congregations, and also the wider community living in the area. It covers topics such as Christian affiliation, population age and ethnicity profiles, household structures, deprivation, employment, schools and qualifications, alongside church statistics such as attendance and giving. We hope that you will find these helpful in understanding and planning for your local community.

SPOTLIGHT NOTES PROVIDED BY THE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAttendance and Finance data Attendance and Finance data have been compiled from annual parochial returns. As you will be aware we do not get a 100% response rate each year and the data in this spotlight do not contain any estimates. The Spotlights are at the parish level, so where there are statistics for multiple churches in a parish, these have been amalgamated. Where there have been pastoral reorganisations the data may show jumps in figures, or gaps in the data.

Parish structures These structures are accurate as at March 2013, however the annual parochial returns data are accurate as of 2011, so in areas of considerable pastoral reorganisation there may be mismatches between the geography and the churches for which the annual parochial returns data refer.